I LOVE Excel Saga, but I have some friends who were a bit turned off by how over the top it was. I loved spotting all the parodies and references that were made in each episode and had a blast. I also enjoy watching older anime from the 80's and 90's, and don't see anything wrong with it. Some of my personal favorites are from this time.

Excel Saga is sheer brilliance. The late 90's were an amazing time for anime, just in terms of originality. I mean that both in artwork and writing, too. Just listing a few comedy titles can end up sounding like an 'all-time-greatest' list.

More than anything, I think it was the "what the heck, let's try it" attitude that you can tell was at work in the production staff. That allowed all sorts of stuff to just come out of the blue at you. In ES, the characters even attempted to assassinate the guy who created ES, and I think that was in the very first episode! I think ES may have been Nabeshin's first anime appearance, too.

But just think about some of the other examples of originality that were coming out back then. Again, just in comedy, you can find GTO, Hana Yori Dango, Tenshi ni Narumon, Space Pirate Mito, You're Under Arrest, and most of the Tenchi titles.

I have never heard of that. I wish to Google now haha. I feel so left out here. I thought I knew tons of anime shows. But it turns out that I only know like...six percent out of one hundred percent that you guys know of.

I have never heard of that. I wish to Google now haha. I feel so left out here. I thought I knew tons of anime shows. But it turns out that I only know like...six percent out of one hundred percent that you guys know of.

There's hundreds upon thousands of different anime in the world today. A majority don't even make it to the US, just the ones that we get licenses for. Though that's in the United States, not sure about the rest of the world outside of Japan but I'm guessing it's similar.

I liked it for some funny moments and shock value up until the last few episodes which I didn't like at all. I felt like they were trying a bit to hard then. But Excel's voice was actually a big plus for me me I really enjoyed her mile a min. mind and the dream scenes .
As far as liking 80's and early 90's anime goes everything on my watch list is pretty much from that era, some of my favorites! Also, the early 2000's had some great ones to..I'm still catching up to current fandoms